Some of Our Favorite Literary Hoaxes

Some of Our Favorite Literary Hoaxes - The New York Times

In honor of April Fools' Day, we've collected some of the best book frauds from the last 100 years.

Thus, what I present is an alternative syllabus, the hidden corpus of the fake, the canon of the lie, the orphan bastard children of the library ...

Top 10 literary hoaxes | Books | The Guardian

Top 10 literary hoaxes · 1. Jonathan Swift – Predictions for the Year 1708 (1708) · 2. James MacPherson – The Works of Ossian (1765) · 3. Edgar ...

8 of the Most Infamous Literary Hoaxes - Book Riot

They take several forms. Some are forgeries that attribute the writers' words to more famous authors. Others claim the work is much older ...

Collecting Rare Books and First Editions - Famous Literary Hoaxes ...

But the world of letters also has its share of true frauds: cheats, liars, and forgers. In some cases, these individuals were merely mischievous pranksters, but ...

Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship | The New Yorker

Hoaxes have played a role in literary history. Probably the most famous hoax in English literature is an epic cycle about a warrior named ...

Complete List - Top 10 Literary Hoaxes - Videos Index on TIME.com

Sometimes stories like that of Holocaust survivor Herman Rosenblat are indeed too good to be true. Here, some of the literary world's most shocking fakes...

Napoleon's Favorite Poet was Actually a Sophisticated Literary Hoax

We read some Ossian in our old English poetry anthology, it wasn't terrible. Of course, in retrospect it looks and smells obviously fake ...

The Most Successful Literary Hoaxes in History - Barnes & Noble

The Hoax: Memoir reveals the wild and crazy lives of airline stewardesses (kids, that's what we used to call female flight attendants). The ...

The 10 Most Infamous Literary Hoaxes of All Time

One of the most recent examples of literary hoax is Oprah's former favourite “memoir,” A Million Little Pieces. Written by James Frey, the book ...

3 Literary Hoaxes That Resulted in Real Books

Naked Came the Stranger · Penelope Ashe ; The Man Who Cried I Am · John A. Williams ; I, Libertine · Theodore Sturgeon.

The 7 Best Literary Hoaxes | Nicholas C. Rossis

The 7 Best Literary Hoaxes · 1. Jean-Baptiste Botul · 2. “Da Vinci Code” Hoax · 3. Davy Crockett's autobiography · 4. Audubon's Face Species · 5.

History's Most Famous Literary Hoaxes

Thirty years after the Hitler Diaries were exposed as a fraud, here's a look back at some of history's other famous fictions.

When Creativity Isn't Appreciated: Literary Hoaxes

The conundrum of a literary hoax is that you must be discovered in order to become famous for perpetrating it. That seems to be the less fun ...

Literary Hoax is the Most Underappreciated Genre

I've never understood the pearl-clutching around the literary hoax—or rather, I understand it perfectly, except in its tendency to hold ...

Literary Hoaxes: when fun turns into irritation. - Shaharee Vyaas

It's an art who lies in the hope of revealing some truths. So what sets the literary hoax separate from the rest of fiction? The oldest hoaxes ...

Gotcha!: The Top Five Literary Hoaxes - Youth Time Magazine

The book was very popular at the time, but it lost its popularity once Meinhold revealed the hoax. To make matters even worse, he was ignored as ...

Writers, Hoaxes, and the Psychology of Fraud - LiteratureLust.com

Literary hoaxes occur more often than you'd think · Jonathon Swift must have wanted to discredit astronomer, John Partridge. · Edgar Allan Poe ...

The Greatest Literary Hoax: JT LeRoy - Part 1 - Facebook

If you remove the photo from the book jacket would you know what your favorite author looks like? Could you ever be sure that their story was ...

Famous Literary Hoaxes (Part Two) - Books Tell You Why blog

Since then, the literary hoax has played a fascinating and engaging role in history. Last week, in Part One, we focused on the Ossian poems, The ...